Languages of education Protestant legacies, national identities, and global aspirations / [electronic resource] :
Daniel Trohler.
- New York : Routledge, 2011.
- xxiii, 252 p.
- Studies in curriculum theory .
- Studies in curriculum theory. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : languages of education -- The educationalization of the modern world : progress, passion, and the Protestant promise of education -- Protestant misunderstandings : Max Weber and the Protestant ethic in America -- Rousseau's classical republicanism -- Linguistic turbulences : the American debates, 1776-1788 -- American culture, pragmatism, and the 'Kingdom of God on earth?' -- Language as homeland : the Genevan reception of pragmatism -- The becoming of an educational science : the Protestant souls and psychologies -- The German geisteswissenschaftliche Padagogik and the ideology of Bildung -- Languages of education compared : Germany, Switzerland, and the United States -- Globalizing globalization : the neo-institutional concept of a world culture -- Concepts, cultures, and comparisons : PISA and the double German discontentment.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
9780203828427 (electronic bk.)
Language and education. Discourse analysis. Education--Social aspects. Protestantism.